It seems there is a veritable fever going around at the moment, all centered on Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) and the possible connection it may have to Nibiru - or Planet-X as it's known in some circles. This is the supposed "12th planet" that's been prophesied to come plowing through the Solar System causing a doomsday scenario for us earth-dwellers. Right now, YouTube is awash with videos on Comet Elenin, making this and that claim. Last I checked, a search for "Comet Elenin" returned over 5,000 results on YouTube alone (and that says nothing about what's going on in the blogosphere).

As we've noted here on SOTT over the years, when the noise starts to overpower the signal, that's when there's usually something brewing behind the scenes. The Powers That Be don't just put resources into obscuring certain topics for nothing; and it seems that their disinfo machine is cranked into high gear for this one. Due to all this noise surrounding these topics many questions abound: Is there something special about Comet Elenin? Does Elenin have anything to do with Nibiru/Planet-X? Is Elenin related to the chaotic weather we've experienced lately? Is Comet Elenin really a spaceship from another galaxy? Is all of this somehow related to the end of the Mayan Calendar and the 2012 doomsday prophecies? These questions are understandable given all the lies we're swimming in and the frantic nature of the material we're dealing with. Hopefully a lot of these questions will clear up towards the end of this article.

To summarize the situation, it seems that we have certain folks claiming that Comet Elenin is everything from an elaborate hoax, to a piloted alien spacecraft, to a stray neutron star, to Planet-X itself, and on and on... All the while, NASA and friends seem to be sitting back comfortably in their chairs saying, "nothing to see here, folks!" So who's figured it out? Or hasn't anyone really put all the pieces together yet? Clearly, there's a lot of truth being mixed with lies - that is for certain. The hope here is to dissect some of the noise and inject a little sanity into what is otherwise an insane discussion.

Let's go back to when this all started earlier this year and see if we can make some sense out of these claims about Elenin, Nibiru and Planet-X.

Opening a Can of Worms

Earlier this year SOTT published Laura Knight-Jadczyk's article on Comet Elenin titled "Comet Elenin is Coming!" There she discussed some of James McCanney's theories and made some rough predictions about Earth Changes due to certain alignments between the Earth, Comet Elenin and the Sun. The key to understanding this process is that these alignments have the ability to 'discharge' the solar capacitor (an area which encompasses the entire Solar System), using McCanney's terminology. When this happens, there's a much greater potential for geomagnetic effects on Earth which, as we're beginning to see, are also tied to earthquakes, volcanoes, large storms and other atmospheric anomalies. And we sure have seen a lot of this these types of events this year! However, correlation does not imply causation and there may be other factors to consider too. But it was shortly after we published Laura's article that the disinfo machine began to kick into high gear.

Now around this same time there was a lot of buzz surrounding the potential for a magnetic pole shift. I discussed how James McCanney's theories related to the possibility of magnetic field changes in the article "Pole Shift? Look to the Skies!". In this piece, I noted a huge spike in Google searches for the phrase "pole shift" in early January, likely tied to the increase in stories about mass animal deaths (which, by the way, haven't stopped). So this was either on a lot of people's minds or at the very least the minds of those in alphabet agencies trying to steer public attention. Whatever the case, the 'pole shift' craze continued for the next few months.

Given these trends, we began to see random folks on YouTube taking the video Laura used in her Comet Elenin article and making wild speculations about an impending 'pole shift' due to happen in the middle of March, right around the first Earth-Elenin-Sun alignment. This was mentioned in Laura's article "Pole Shift in March? Not Likely!" I thought I made it pretty clear in my "Pole Shift?..." article that the only way we'd have a magnetic pole shift is if a very large (planet-size) comet passes close to the Earth. But apparently these folks didn't get the message. Alignments with planets and even comets are not uncommon and a magnetic pole shift would seem to be a highly unlikely possibility. As Laura stated in her article, "it's just plain nuts to go around predicting a pole shift in March based on the approach of Comet Elenin!"

So what actually happened? Well, we're pretty sure the poles didn't shift in March (although the North Pole has been steadily drifting towards Siberia for some time now). However, we did get an M9 earthquake in Japan causing a devastating tsunami around this time. We suspect that the alignment with Comet Elenin may have had something to do with this. There was a massive spike in geomagnetic activity around March 11th as noted by the planetary k-index (see image below.) As SpaceWeather.com reported for March 9th:

A coronal mass ejection (CME) exploded from the vicinity of sunspot 1164 during the late hours of March 7th. It leapt away from the sun traveling ~2200 km/s, making it the fastest CME since Sept. 2005. A movie of the cloud prepared by Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab shows a possibly substantial Earth-directed component. This CME and at least one other could brush against Earth's magnetic field on March 9th or 10th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

Was this massive CME and the resulting geomagnetic activity around March 11th, as well as the devastating Tsunami in Japan, all related to an Elenin-Earth-Sun alignment? I mentioned in my recent "Planetary Alignments..." article the work of John Nelson and the relationship he discovered between planetary alignments and geomagnetic activity. But is there a similar correlation between geomagnetic activity and earthquakes? In fact, there does appear to be one.

One such theory is the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling (LAIC) theory used to explain the phenomenon of ionospheric heating over a region prior to a major earthquake. This article describes how the ionosphere heated up just prior to the Japanese M9 quake. Similar ionospheric heating over a region before a major earthquake has been detected in other instances as well.

It seems that scientists have a difficult time explaining the cause of these ionospheric and atmospheric changes that precede major earthquakes. Most scientists still believe that the source of an earthquake must begin within the Earth itself, arising from forces generated by shifting tectonic plates. They suspect that radiation due to radon released before and during an earthquake causes the anomalous ionospheric heating and atmospheric changes observed. However, there are other schools of thought that posit that ionospheric changes due to solar activity is actually the driver behind major earthquakes. Another good summary of this concept can be found here.

Right now the jury is still out on how the process works, but given what we've observed between planetary alignments and Earth Changes, we suspect that the forces that trigger an earthquake likely originate from outside of the ionosphere. But it would take a whole other article to explain this reasoning fully. For the moment, let's explore some of what's being said about Comet Elenin and see if we can make some sense out of this madness.

The Good

On April 11th, Dr. Mensur Omerbashich, a Bosnian scientist, submitted the paper "Astronomical alignments as the cause of ~M6+ seismicity" to the arXiv.org database, hosted by Cornell University. On the one hand, this paper was interesting because he drew a strong correlation between planetary alignments and earthquakes, something we've been keeping an eye on here at SOTT. But on the other hand, he attributes the mechanism behind this to his own "georesonator concept", which involves gravitational forces, while we rather suspect that electrical forces are primarily responsible for this correlation. The paper itself has been much discussed on the web since its release and many have tried to offer alternative interpretations to Omerbashich's data. Much of his paper focuses on Comet Elenin as a big part of its dataset, which has caused some folks to raise an eyebrow or two. In an interview conducted by Marshall Masters of Yowusa.com, Masters questions Omerbashich on why he chose to focus on Comet Elenin for his paper:

The Elenin was suitable for testing of my concept because its trajectory, with inclination of around 1º, is virtually coplanar to our solar system. It also approaches the Sun relatively slowly, traveling along the legs of a hyperbola. These characteristics are enabling long alignments amongst the Elenin, the Earth and a third body.

The Elenin also drags gravitationally locked particles spanning 30k+ km, but neither its relatively small mass nor relatively low density constitute forbidding factors for causing strong earthquakes in the georesonator. No other object with similar properties has been noticed in our solar system in the past few decades, to the best of my knowledge.

He's right. Most comets have some large amount of inclination in their orbit about the Sun. By "inclination", I mean that their orbit is offset by some degree from the plane of the ecliptic, which is where all the planets are. For example, Comet Hale-Bopp is inclined a whopping 90 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic - pretty much perpendicular to the planets. A body having a small inclination (like Comet Elenin) is apparently an important feature for Omerbashich's georesonator concept. He also predicts that as Comet Elenin approaches the Earth, the earthquake activity will actually decrease. The reason for this, he explains, is that Elenin will pick up speed as it makes its slingshot around the Sun, so any alignments will be too short-lived to cause any major earthquake activity. Now that Elenin is still on its approach, the Earth alignments should be of longer duration, leading to greater "resonance," and thus more high-magnitude earthquakes, he claims. Omerbashich predicts that as Elenin heads on its way out of the Solar System, the earthquake activity should intensify for a period of time as the longer duration alignments increase again. This appears to be one feature of his theory that is falsifiable.

While Omerbashich's paper focuses exclusively on explaining the peaks in earthquake activity, how do we make sense of the record number of tornadoes we've experienced this spring, along with other electrical anomalies including transformer fires? It seems that there is an electrical component to this whole process that Omerbashich has overlooked. However, when asked in the interview about his opinion of the popular Electric Universe Theory, he states:

I am not familiar with the details of that theory. Bear in mind though, that electromagnetism can also be a byproduct and a feature of a closed mechanical oscillator.

So maybe we have a chicken and egg problem? Does Omerbashich's georesonator cause the electromagnetic effects, or do the electromagnetic effects stand on their own? Remember the Ionosphere-Atmosphere-Lithosphere Coupling theory mentioned above? Omerbashich's paper also mentions the observed ionospheric heating before major earthquakes, yet his georesonator concept seems to fall short in explaining this phenomenon fully.

James McCanney also spoke of planetary alignments as the cause of electrical disturbances in the solar system, possibly leading to Earth Changes. In his book Planet-X, Comets & Earth Changes, he cites Comet C/1999 H1 and Comet C/2001 A2 as examples of comets that supposedly caused such mischief. Neither of these comets have orbital inclinations even close to the plane of the ecliptic. However, he does note that their strongest effects were during perihelion when they were closest to the plane of the ecliptic. These alignments, he mentions, did not set up in a perfectly straight line, so it appears that there's some leeway when it comes to alignments with comets. Since Omerbashich argues that alignments of long duration are a center-piece of his georesonator concept, this seems in contradiction to McCanney's findings, since the alignments McCanney cites were all short-lived. However, McCanney's correlations are mostly with hurricanes and not earthquakes, so perhaps each sort of alignment has a different 'flavor'? It would be nice to have more research dedicated to solving these problems, but for now we're left to piece together the clues we're given.

The Bad

In any event, Omerbashich's paper has spread like wildfire throughout the alternative media. Some folks don't buy Omerbashich's georesonator concept and instead believe that the only way Elenin could exert forces at a distance strong enough to cause earthquakes would be if astronomers have grossly underestimated its mass. Some of these folks suspect a conspiracy at NASA to hide the real data on Elenin. Now there likely is a conspiracy at NASA, but in this case no conspiracy is apparently needed to explain the conundrum. It seems more likely that these folks still haven't figured out the role that electrical forces play in our solar system - the real force behind these correlations between Elenin and earthquakes. This appears to be the reasoning behind the speculation that Elenin is actually a brown dwarf, neutron star or some other hypothetical large body like the mythical Nibiru/Planet-X, instead of just a lowly comet.

It's unfortunate to see how one layer of disinformation plays off another. As NASA and professional astronomers have neglected electrical forces in their models of the Solar System over the decades, this has left the door wide open for wild speculations of this sort - where mass and gravitation have to explain everything. You'd almost think some devious time-traveler in the future was cunning enough to set up such a sorry situation, but I digress...

There are other folks on YouTube who attempt to show that there is no comet in the location of the sky where Elenin is supposed to be and instead point to a brown dwarf in its place. It seems unlikely that so many astronomers (both professional and amateur) would fail to understand what they're seeing.

Just a couple notes here: Mark Sircus, whose health articles we've featured on SOTT, is one such person to join the fray of individuals proclaiming that Elenin is actually some absurdly massive body (actually a neutron star in his case). While this is unfortunate, and does call into question his objectivity, it may just be a case of Mark getting too involved in topics he hasn't fully researched. Hopefully Mark, like a lot of other folks, will come to their senses come October when Elenin gets up close and personal with the Earth.

Another note I have to mention here is that while it seems extremely unlikely Elenin is anything other than a small comet, that doesn't invalidate the idea that there is some brown dwarf star sitting in a binary orbit with the Sun. There's actually more to this theory than most people realize, and a close approach of this companion star may be responsible for some of the anomalous events observed in the solar system recently.

Unlike what the Nibiru/Planet-X crowd speculates, the research doesn't point to this companion star coming anywhere near the inner solar system. We have surmised that the precession of the equinoxes is somewhat indicative of its orbital parameters, and we can form a hypothesis on where it might reach perihelion based on the sheer edge found just around 50 AU. However, this doesn't mean that just because the Sun's hypothetical companion doesn't come into the solar system that it wouldn't have any notable impact. We've made the point elsewhere that if this hypothetical companion star passes through the Oort cloud, there would also be a tendency for it to dislodge comets towards the inner solar system too.

We've mentioned McCanney and his theories quite a bit here, but what is James McCanney actually saying about all of this Elenin business? One would think that he might be saying similar things about Elenin as we are. As he notes on his website recently:

Comet Elenin IS NOT A THREAT to earth ... my name and work regarding the electrical nature of comets and the solar system are being hijacked by a government backed misinformation crew making all kinds of wild claims about Comet Elenin ...

These postings are on web pages and blogs and many professionally made youtube videos disguised as coming from "average people" like you and me ... many times claiming to have resources to un-named "professional astronomers" who "verify" their baloney stories ...

Some claim that they talk to aliens who "confirm McCanney's work" along with completely distorted ramblings ... some claim Comet Elenin will cause all sorts of disaster with time lines and dates with some claiming you should move to certain "safe sites" on a given timeline ...

These sites and people we have found are all coming from the same place ... let me make it perfectly clear that Comet Elenin is a small comet that will likely not be even seen by most people since it is so small and far away ... someone (group) is spending a lot of time and money to make a major issue out of a complete non-issue ... the curious issue is why all the misinformation and other "date" correlations being propagated on the internet and now on the major media ...

It is clear that an extensive group of people are behind this and they are getting major press and air time ... then in clear disinformation style the NASA owned press has the "white hats" (the NASA "good-guys") riding in to save the day telling you not to listen to all those quacks on the internet (pointing directly to these many sites which distort my name and work which as i said is being completely mis-represented by the same disinformation crew in what we have come to learn over the years is a well orchestrated dog and pony show ... with the same disinformation crew controlling both sides of the "debate") [...]

Others are associating this false reporting with possible NASA and leadership (NWO and other) groups to create false alien invasion scenarios (emphasis on FALSE) to create fear with the public ... i have NOTHING to do with any of these reports and let me repeat and make it perfectly clear ... my work regarding cometary alignments and the electrical nature of the solar system shows that Comet Elenin IS NOT ANY KIND OF THREAT TO EARTH ... emphasis on NOT [...]

While he's right - there does seem to be a big disinfo campaign afoot - his writing here seems utterly paranoid. Given the topics he's dealing with, some amount of paranoia is to be expected, but this does seem over the top. Perhaps he's caught a slightly different form of the Elenin fever than the hystericized YouTubers out there? In all seriousness though, it appears that McCanney is unwilling to join in a healthy discussion of these topics and network with other like-minded individuals. This is unfortunate. It also seems like he's thrown up his hands and labeled everyone as some form of quack distorting his work without due consideration. As the saying goes, sometimes there is only a fine line between genius and insanity.

It should be stated that SOTT does not endorse anything other than McCanney's older astronomy work, which was quite good for the time. He appears to be going off in his own direction which is very much different from ours.

Recently Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot completed filming a "roundtable video conference" on Comet Elenin which included the likes of Richard Hoagland, Dr Joseph Farrell, Keith Hunter, Dr Carl Johan Calleman, and Andy Lloyd. At this moment, the conference in its entirety has not been released. However, selected portions have been released to the public. Most notable in this roundtable group is Richard Hoagland, of Cydonia fame (the 'face' on Mars) and his thesis that Elenin is actually a "controlled spacecraft" which is beaming Earth with gravitational torsion waves causing this increase in earthquakes. As Michael Salla of the Exopolitics Examiner reports:

The main conference organizer, Kerry Cassidy, revealed that a number of anonymous whistleblowers had revealed that Elenin is a piloted spacecraft, and in fact was being trailed by a fleet of spacecraft. Hoagland claims that he has been confidentially told similarly by other whistleblowers of the artificial nature of Elenin. Dr Joseph Farrell agreed and claimed that Elenin was either an artificial object (controlled spacecraft) or a natural object placed in an artificial orbit. In probably the most significant observation of the conference, Hoagland claimed that Elenin was likely an active torsion field generator.

Anonymous whistleblowers, huh?

Professor Nikolai Kozyrev, a Russian scientist was the originator of the idea of torsion waves. He developed an extremely sensitive apparatus to detect these waves, which he found occurred from any irreversible process. Due to this, his torsion waves were also denoted as "time waves" by some. He was certainly involved in some exotic physics, but the main point to understand here is that these torsion waves supposedly interact with matter in such a weak way that only the most sensitive devices could detect them. This has caused many scientists to wonder if what Kozyrev observed was even a real phenomenon at all. In any event, Hoagland doesn't appear to have grasped this concept (along with many others) if he truly believes that Elenin is emitting torsion waves which are somehow strong enough to cause earthquakes.

But really?... Elenin?... a piloted spacecraft?.. As in, UFO or 'alien' spacecraft? Forgive me for stating the obvious, but UFOs tend to be extremely elusive objects, popping in and out of reality with uncanny, synchronistic timing. We've been tracking the more notable sightings for years here on SOTT, so we have a pretty good idea what to expect from the UFO phenomenon overall. If UFOs are such slippery entities, why would they suddenly choose the form of a plainly visible comet to zip past the planets, when they typically can't even stay in our reality long enough for people to photograph them? Frankly, the assertion that Elenin is a "controlled spacecraft" isn't falsifiable, so there's little we can say about the matter. In other words, like much of what Hoagland claims, it's not even wrong.

What's unfortunate about relating Elenin to UFOs is that Kerry Cassidy, Richard Hoagland and the other folks involved with this Project Camelot "roundtable video conference" are setting up another scenario similar to what occurred with Comet Hale-Bopp in the late 90's. Back then some astronomers photographed a body trailing Comet Hale-Bopp, causing many to openly speculate that it might be a UFO. This ultimately led to the Heaven's Gate mass suicide. According to the Hale-Bopp entry on Wikipedia:

In November 1996 amateur astronomer Chuck Shramek of Houston, Texas took a CCD image of the comet, which showed a fuzzy, slightly elongated object nearby. When his computer sky-viewing program did not identify the star, Shramek called the Art Bell radio program Coast to Coast AM to announce that he had discovered a "Saturn-like object" following Hale - Bopp. UFO enthusiasts, such as remote viewing proponent Courtney Brown, soon concluded that there was an alien spacecraft following the comet.[51] Several astronomers, including Alan Hale,[52] claimed the object was simply an 8.5-magnitude star, SAO141894, which did not appear on Shramek's computer program because the user preferences were set incorrectly.[53]

Later, Art Bell even claimed to have obtained an image of the object from an anonymous astrophysicist who was about to confirm its discovery. However, astronomers Olivier Hainaut and David J. Tholen of the University of Hawaii stated that the alleged photo was an altered copy of one of their own comet images.[54]

A few months later, in March 1997, the Heaven's Gate cult chose the appearance of the comet as a signal for their mass cult suicide. They claimed they were leaving their earthly bodies to travel to the spaceship following the comet.[55]

It should be noted that Art Bell and Richard Hoagland had a long-standing relationship for many years. It seems awfully fishy that Hoagland is now promoting a similar story about Comet Elenin given what transpired with Heaven's Gate over a decade ago. What Cassidy, Hoagland and others have started here is most shameful. Presenting Comet Elenin as a spacecraft sent to "usher in a New Age" is just plain irresponsible considering the recent history of such claims. The UFO and contactee community tends to house some of the more mentally unstable individuals. These claims by Hoagland as promoted by Cassidy seemingly amount to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

But you can't really count something as a total disinfo job until Sorcha Faal (a.k.a. David Booth) gets in on the action. In a recent article titled "Top US Space Expert Issues Catastrophic Warning On Comet Elenin" published on the whatdoesitmean.com website, Booth highlights Hoagland's claim by emphasizing this so-called "secret code" which agents unknown have apparently embedded in the JPL data on Comet Elenin. (Just a note, it should be obvious by now that Richard Hoagland should never be considered an "expert" on anything other than COINTELPRO activities.)

The 'secret coding' referred to by Hoagland contained on the JPL website falls under the "Orbit Determination Parameters" statistics information block that lists the producer of the data as being "Otto Matic."

According to Hoagland's report, the significance of the name "Otto Matic" being associated with Comet Elenin lies with it only being able to be associated with a video game developed by Pangea Software, published by Aspyr Media and then released to the public on 11 September 2001, the same day the United States suffered a crippling attack.

Hoagland further asserts in his report that is "beyond coincidence" that Comet Elenin is scheduled make its closest approach to the Sun on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, 11 September 2011, and that on 11 November 2011 (11-11-11) its orbit will carry it into a "grand alignment" between itself, the Earth and other planets in our Solar System.

Seriously?!? Keep in mind this is whatdoesitmean.com, which tends to take the looniest of the loony claims, then wrap them up in a nice package with a few credible side stories. I mean, I'd like to think that most people can see right though this stuff for the lies, half-truths and psuedo-logic that it is, but I'm afraid that there are probably some people that will fall for stuff like this. Hoagland, by way of David Booth and Kerry Cassidy, appears to be leading a bunch of folks along on a wild goose chase! Needless to say, the disinfo machine appears to be running on all four-cylinders at this point!

Getting back to this comparison of Elenin with Hale-Bopp... Despite all these claims about spaceships trailing comets and such nonsense, observing multiple objects circling or trailing a comet might not be that unusual. It's often noted by astronomers that comets come in pairs. Comets often drag a large amount of disintegrating material in their tail too, some of which could be larger asteroid-like bodies. Another more controversial claim is that comets, if they are large enough, may even have natural satellites just like planets have moons. According to McCanney, this appears to have been the case with Comet Hale-Bopp:

The list of lies from NASA was nearly endless. Almost no sooner than photos from the Hubble Space Telescope had been placed on the official NASA internet site, than they were as quickly removed. NASA time lapse movies showed clearly a large companion or satellite orbiting the parent very massive and huge main nucleus. I called my contacts at Goddard Space Flight Center and the inside story was that H-B was HUGE. The ensuing story of the companion (which NASA officially admitted later WAS THERE at the Canary Island H-B conference) is so bizarre that it will take a separate book to describe it. NASA scientists accused individuals including some of their own professional scientists of "faking photos" and causing the death of 39 unsuspecting Heavens Gates Cult members, when in fact it is now proven that NASA scientists at the University of Hawaii were the ones who doctored the photos.

In other words, according to McCanney, Comet Hale-Bopp's nucleus was likely somewhere around the size of our Moon. This orbiting or trailing object that UFO enthusiasts claimed to be a spacecraft was perhaps just a natural satellite of Comet Hale-Bopp, tagging along for the ride. Again, we can see how one layer of disinformation propagated by NASA about the nature of comets leads others to accept more bizarre explanations such as comet-trailing spacecraft, etc. It's the same as with the claims about Comet Elenin being the size of a brown dwarf star. Lies feed upon lies and in the end only careful research can shed any light on the situation.

...and Authoritarian Science

It appears that NASA has not changed its ways since the days of the Hale-Bopp controversy either. Their stance on Comet Elenin is basically the polar opposite of those folks running around making unfounded, extraordinary claims. According to NASA, Elenin is just a tiny snowball comet that isn't going to impact the Earth in any significant way come this fall. What's more, all these claims about Nibiru/Planet-X are just an elaborate hoax so others can sell more books. In other words, "Nothing to see here, folks! Move right along..."

A recent article on Space.com titled "Believers In Mysterious Planet Nibiru Await Earth's End" is an exemplary form of this whole attitude NASA harbors. It sets up its straw man argument by putting "Nibiru", "conspiracy theorists", "2012" and "YouTube" all in the same sentence:

The waxing obsession with Nibiru, which conspiracy theorists say is a planet swinging in from the outskirts of our solar system that is going to crash into Earth and wipe out humanity in 2012 - or, in some opinions, 2011 - shows that an astonishing number of people "are watching YouTube videos and visiting slick websites with nothing in their skeptical toolkit," in the words of David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

The folks inciting doomsday scenarios and making extreme claims about Elenin, Nibiru/Planet-X on YouTube are certainly acting irresponsibly. But NASA is no better it seems when it comes to engaging in rational discussion about these topics. In fact, NASA's outright denial of the danger posed by comets creates such an environment where irrational claims - such as the ones they rail against - can easily thrive. This outright denial only drives more people to irrational positions on these topics. True 'skepticism' is not a stubborn denial of the facts.

Morrison estimates that there are 2 million websites discussing the impending Nibiru-Earth collision. He receives, on average, five email inquiries about Nibiru every day.

"At least once a week I get a message from a young person - as young as 11 - who says they are ill and/or contemplating suicide because of the coming doomsday," Morrison told Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com.

This isn't the first time that David Morrison has claimed that he is hearing from young folks who are contemplating suicide over what they read and hear on the net. (Which, by the way, if true, is extremely tragic! This should give pause to all those who make such doomsday claims and hopefully reflect on what drives them to do so.) He mentions the same thing in a video released at the beginning of this year by NASA where he also attempts to debunk any claims about 2012, Nibiru/Planet-X, planetary alignments, magnetic pole shifts, etc. in a heavy-handed, authoritarian manner. Again, no rational discussion, just outright denial and basic authoritarian tactics. And Morrison wonders why so many young people are inclined to take their own lives in a world so devoid of truth? It's the irrational loonies on both sides of the spectrum setting up this sorry state of affairs.

Later on, the article discusses some of the history behind the Nibiru/Planet-X claims which were popularized by Nancy Lieder back in the late 90's. Nancy made a big hoopla over a rendezvous with this Planet-X sometime around 2003, which obviously never transpired. Since then her focus has been to ramp up a similar program focused on the 2012 timeframe. The article discusses some of the history of where the name "Nibiru" comes from:

Lieder originally called the bringer of doom "Planet X," and later connected it to a planet that was hypothesized to exist by a writer named Zecharia Sitchin in his book "The 12th Planet" (Harper 1976). According to Sitchin (1920-2010), the ancient Sumerians wrote about a giant planet called Nibiru - the "twelfth planet" in the solar system, after the other planets (including Pluto), the sun and moon - which has an oblong orbit that swings near Earth every 3,600 years. Humans actually evolved on Nibiru, he said, and colonized this planet during a previous flyby.

Historians and language scholars say that Stitchin grossly mistranslated ancient texts. The Sumerians did indeed believe in a cosmology involving planets; however they thought there were five planets, not 12, and they did not believe that humans hopped to Earth from a place called Nibiru. Furthermore, astronomers have pointed out that a planetary orbit like the one Sitchin proposed for Nibiru is impossible: No celestial body could maintain a stable orbit that swings it through the inner solar system every 3,600 years and keeps it beyond Pluto the rest of the time. The body would quickly get sucked in or pushed out.

First of all, let me just say a few words about Sumerian astronomy since this author is really confusing the matter. According to astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier, these ancient astronomers were not particularly interested in the planets as we know them today, but rather in observing the orbits of cometary debris coming from different parts of the sky. Their "five planets" were not actually 'planets' as we understand them, but meteor streams left behind by some larger progenitor comet. In what few records the Chaldean astronomers left behind, they described these "five planets" as having fixed zodiacal positions in the sky, just like meteor showers do, whereas for the actual planets that we know today, their position in the zodiac varies over time. [Bailey, Clube, Napier; The Origin of Comets; 1990, p26]

These ancient astronomers associated increased meteor and fireball sightings with ill omens, either of an environmental or social nature. Land would be laid to waste, crops would fail, armies would clash, cities would rise and fall, all due to the signs from the mighty sky gods (i.e. progenitor comets). Given this, the confusion about Nibiru being a planet is understandable. What the ancients were really describing with this name "Nibiru" and the other five planetary names were actually comets, or clusters of comets and their attendant meteor streams.

It's also not unusual for long-period comets to have orbits which span thousands of years. So the claim that, "no celestial body could maintain a stable orbit..." is a bit of a distortion if the implication is that such a 3,600 year orbit could not exist. Many celestial bodies have been tracked having orbits of this period or greater. What's impossible is for a LARGE body to maintain a stable orbit while traveling through the inner solar system because making such a passage ultimately changes the orbit of said body. A cluster of smaller comets with a 3,600 year period would not be out of the question here. Even if one or two of them get sucked into or kicked out of the solar system, there would likely be others that stay close to their original orbit.

The Space.com article goes on to discuss this supposed association people have made between Elenin and Nibiru:

The biggest missing link in the doomsday prophecy is Nibiru itself. Because no giant, rogue planet has been found in the outer solar system to play the role of Nibiru, some conspiracy theorists have decided that a small comet called Elenin, which will pass nearest Earth in October 2011, is actually Nibiru. Even then, though, scientists say Elenin will come no closer than 100 times farther than the distance from Earth to the moon...

Again, as noted above, the association of Elenin to some massive body is due to the incorrect assumptions attached to Omerbashich's work that we discussed above. Part of this is, again, the fault of NASA for not being straightforward about the electrical nature of the solar system.

"The fact is that these folks are constantly changing their story," Morrison wrote in an email. "For some, Nibiru is no longer the Sumerian god or planet that is supposed to be returning to Earth in late 2012. It has become a catchword for almost any cosmic catastrophe."

If Morrison actually understood the real meaning behind "Nibiru" as described above, he might see how its status as a "catchword for almost any cosmic catastrophe" might be warranted. That isn't to say that Comet Elenin is Nibiru, however. I think we still need to draw a distinction between these two things until we have more data. From all appearances, Elenin is still a relatively small, long-period comet. It should be noted that comets are not so easy to detect until they've 'electrified'. Comets, despite the myth about them being 'dirty snowballs', are actually some of the blackest objects in all of space. For all we know there may be a large cluster of comets already knocking at the door of the inner solar system. This is a very real possibility given the sudden increase of 'moons' detected around Jupiter and all the outer planets since the year 2000 [Knight-Jadczyk; Almost Human; 2009, p25]

Internet rumors about Elenin began spreading earlier this year. Its approach to Earth was blamed for shifting the Earth's axis by 3 degrees in February, precipitating the Chile earthquake, then shifting the pole even more to trigger the Japan quake in March. "Ignoring plate tectonics as the cause of earthquakes, they suggest that the comet exerted strong gravitational or electromagnetic effects on our planet," Morrison wrote.

When scientists pointed out that the comet is a mere 3-mile-wide glob of ice with no magnetic field and that it won't even pass very near Earth - and that plate tectonics, not comets, cause earthquakes - rumors began to circulate that NASA was withholding information about Elenin.

Some of these claims, specifically about Elenin and the March 11th M9 earthquake in Japan, seem to have some basis in fact, as we've explored. Electromagnetic effects from planetary alignments, resulting in seismic activity, is a definite possibility given what we've pieced together. To say simply that plate tectonics causes earthquakes is not so different than saying that electricity causes a lightbulb to brighten. There still has to be some event to trigger the earthquake, just as there has to be some switch to send current to the lightbulb. Morrison appears to be confusing a common theory with a mechanism of causation. If we actually knew what caused earthquakes, we'd already be able to predict when and where they would occur. So far there is no known earthquake prediction system available to us.

A little further down, Morrison debunks the claim that Elenin is actually some massive body like a brown-dwarf star in disguise:

If it were a brown dwarf, "it would not have a coma or tail, because the gas cannot escape from an object with substantial gravity. In addition, if it were massive we would be seeing its gravitational influence on the orbits of the planets, especially Mars and Earth, but there is no change in these orbits," Morrison wrote. "Finally, if it were a brown dwarf it would have been easily detected in various previous astronomical surveys, including the recent WISE infrared mission, even when it was still in the outer solar system," he wrote.

Again, we're not arguing that Elenin is actually a brown dwarf star, but we don't discount the possibility that such a brown dwarf star may be in a binary orbit with our Sun. In other words, the two objects, Elenin and a hypothetical brown-dwarf companion star, are independent of one another. Unfortunately, the folks out there on YouTube and other blogs just haven't accomplished the depth of research needed to see this and are muddying the waters with their claims - perhaps in some cases intentionally.

What Morrison says here about WISE is interesting, however. It is true that if such a body existed, WISE would have likely photographed it by now. However, that doesn't mean that anybody recognizes it for what it is at this point. In fact, astronomers like John Matese and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette admit that they are actually searching for such a dark body. They suspect that this body (which they've euphemistically named "Tyche") is on the size-scale of a Jovian planet. At the moment there is still much debate over what its orbital parameters or mass might be, but they suspect such a body does exist due to the irregular distribution of long-period comet orbits. The process of testing potential candidates that turn up in the WISE surveys takes a long time, since each body must be tracked for some amount of time in order to compute its orbit. But that doesn't seem to concern Morrison here since it seems he's mostly concerned about pulling the wool over your eyes.

In conclusion the article states:

Morrison offered some advice to those who are interested in astronomy or are worried about impending collisions. "If it [a story] is real, it is likely to be in regular news media, not just posted on some website," he told us. Furthermore, "not everyone who claims on YouTube to be a scientist or an employee of NASA is. But there is no simple way to distinguish truth from lies."

Indeed. There is no simple way to distinguish truth from lies. It takes true perspicacity, and even then nothing is for certain. From this brief article it appears that truth - for Morrison, as well as the author presumably - is only a matter of faith in those scientific authorities ordained by the Establishment. There's a distinct us-vs-them attitude that pervades his comments; and this same attitude appears to have infected most of NASA and other professional astronomers as well. It's as if for them science was a matter of picking the right sports team in a championship. It's 'scientists' versus the rest of us unenlightened quacks.

In any case, between NASA and the Nibiru folks, there is little middle ground for discussion on these topics of Comet Elenin, a hypothetical companion star, or any connection these might have to the Earth Changes going on right now. Hopefully some of this discussion serves to bridge this gap. (Even though I've probably only touched on a small percentage of the claims that have been made out there!)

So if Comet Elenin is just an ordinary comet, what can or should we expect this fall when it passes by the Earth?

We know that Elenin will probably not come close enough to impact the Earth directly, but what are some of the possibilities as the Earth passes through the tail of Comet Elenin? We know that comet tails do contain a large amount of dust and smaller asteroids. We also know that bacteria and other microbes can survive in the tail region while attached to this dust. Since Elenin has traveled quite a distance to make it here, it might have picked up some distinct alien microbes somewhere along the way. Is it possible that we might experience a rash of new diseases, or some pandemic disease sometime in the late fall or early winter (northern hemisphere)? Or not until next year perhaps? It can take time for the material picked up by the upper layers of the atmosphere (as Earth passes through debris fields of varying density) to precipitate down through the lower layers.

Some scientists have linked past pandemics to comet passages before, such as the case with Comet 2P/Encke and the so-called Spanish Flu. In the paper "Comets and Contagion: Evolution and Diseases From Space", R. Joseph and C. Wickramasinghe hypothesize that the flu pandemic of 1918 was due to the Earth passing through the tail of Comet Encke - the comet related to the Taurid meteor showers which occur every year at the end of June (this being the same time as the anniversary of the Tunguska Explosion over Siberia). Perhaps something similar could happen when the Earth passes through the tail of Comet Elenin this fall?

But even if pandemic disease is in our future, there's still no reason to panic. Despite what the medical authorities would have you believe, there is a lot a person can do on their own to project themselves from new diseases. There's a wealth of information in our Health & Wellness section and our very own Dr. Gabriela Segura M.D. has written several articles on the topic of detoxification. Such information could become vital in the event of a pandemic, but I think it's best if people were already in the habit of detoxing and supplying their bodies with optimal fuel beforehand (as there are many other benefits besides just preventing disease). The motivated reader might want to check out these links for starters:

Of course, at the very least, if what we've seen so far this year is any indication, we may expect more of the same: earthquakes, volcanoes, violent storms and unstable weather. For all we know, many of these Earth Changes might be related to a hypothetical brown dwarf star making its perihelion approach; Comet Elenin might only be a smaller contributing factor. Remember the early Greenland sunrise this year? Perhaps there is something 'big' on the horizon causing slight changes in the configuration of the entire solar system? Such a possibility was discussed in a recent Cornell study which attempted to explain changes in the Moon's orbital eccentricity. Although no definite conclusions were reached in this study, we believe the possibility of a "massive distant body" remains open. Currently the Sun is behaving mighty quiet for a time when it is supposed to be at a maximum for solar activity. We've seen visible changes on both Jupiter and Saturn taking place within the last year. Astronomers are witnessing events they've never before seen in the short history of modern astronomy. There are a lot of mysteries to consider here.

There is so much more to discover; new mysteries and new horizons are appearing and the imperative of keeping eyes open to objective reality left and right grows stronger with the dangers they bring. Try to keep in mind that all this noise about Comet Elenin being radiated across the Net from the Cosmic COINTELPRO sector is intended to DISTRACT you and vector your thinking. There appear to be a number of actors on this scene with varying motivations. In a spooky way, it may be that Comet Elenin itself could be the source of some of this hysteria among the general public. Clube and Napier noted the distinct historical fact that when comet and fireball sightings were on the increase, social instability was often at a peak. Many times this would lead to the collapse of one empire and its replacement with another. Mass social movements and religions would either dissolve or spring up from the upheaval. Perhaps relating comets to the 'gods', as the ancients did, is not such a stretch after all? At this point, considering the pace of these changes in our cosmic and social landscape, a sanity check is definitely overdue.

Where did you find the pic of Leonid Elenin? I looked for info on him a couple of weeks ago and there wasn't CRAP out there! He has no bio at all at Wikipedia and I could find no info on him through search engines, although I did go to a website that was supposedly his blog, [Link], but the differences in the writing style of the blog entries makes me wonder if the same person is writing it. I was immediately suspicious when he first broke on the scene because they said his name was "Elenina" at first, which is a distinctly FEMALE Russian name because of the "a" at the end.

There are pictures floating around out there of him. I just grabbed that one off a Google image search. We published pictures of him with his telescope way back in January in Laura's article here [Link]
Not sure what you mean about the differences in writing styles, can you cite specific examples?

About 40 years ago now I saw a plot over about a year of the moon's orbital inclination ("5.145° to the ecliptic, between 18.29° and 28.58° to Earth's equator." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon). It appeared to be almost random, though of course it's not, it's just influenced by all the rest of massive bodies in the solar system - primarily the Earth, of course, but also the Sun, all the other planets, and even the asteroids and comets. The moon's inclination looks like a drunkard's progress, there's nothing new about observiing that.

The Cassiopeans initially said that comet Elenin is 500km in diameter, according to a session log. Laura questioned that, but apparently they confirmed the number. If so, that would be *big*, as in about the size of Britain or a western US state. (500km is about 310 miles, or about the width of Oregon and Washington.)

But this article says comet Elenin is only about 3 miles in diameter, or a bit less than 5km. In other words, the Cassiopeans were off by two orders of magnitude in their prediction. 10X would be bad, but 100X? Perhaps there was some 'noise' in the superluminal linkage.

I'm skeptical, and I'm sure Laura and SOTT won't mind that, as it is the scientific method to look for falsifiable elements and point it out when claims are contradicted by subsequent reports from research.

The Cassiopeans might have included comet Elenin's train of dust and gases in their figure of 500km, which would make some sense, but they didn't say that and so we don't know.

Even if that's the case, given the rather large distance away from the Earth that comet Elenin will pass, there seems to be no case for any speculation that Earth will pas through a dense cloud of its cometary trail. So, I'm rather inclined to think it'll be a non-event in that respect.

Solar capacitor discharges are also highly speculative theories, too, in my opinion. Such things might occur, but they are not proven yet.

Yup, superluminal communication isn't an infallible source of information, that's why doing the research is paramount.

Where are you coming up with this idea that there is no proof that Earth will pass through the tail of comet Elenin? Of course it will happen, unless Elenin (or the Earth for that matter) gets knocked out of orbit or something. Remember a comet's tail always points away from the sun. Sometimes people forget this. Just take a look at the JPL simulator if you're not sure [Link]

Sometimes all that we have is speculative research. Yes, it would be nice to have more concrete 'proof' of these theories and correlations, but nobody is going to get any closer to proof by sitting on the sidelines. Paying attention to the objective reality left and right is the only way to get there.

In the session after the one with 500km as the answer, Laura reasked the question and the answer was 5km by almost 10km. For the 500km session, not only the answer but the thoughts Laura was having while getting the answer didn't seem right. The 5 and 10 got turned into 5 and 00 is kind of how Laura described it.

The most specific example, which may seem silly to the rest of you, is his improper use of "it's" to mean "its". It is a very common mistake that Americans make, but not so much for people for whom English is a second language. I have friends all over Europe and even one in China, and they are much more careful with grammar than we Americans are. It's just not a common mistake for non-native English speakers. Plus, some blog entries read like they were written by a native English speaker, the way the sentence structure and word usage flows. Other entries do appear to be written by someone other than a non-native speaker, but not necessarily Russian. The best person to check out my suspicions would be Ark, who could tell (better than me) whether or not a Russian national actually wrote the blog entries. Google Images only has two pics of Elenin, the one in Laura's article and the one here. There is another interesting pic that has two images of Elenin side-by-side, and the website it came from is questioning whether it is the same guy.

Yeah, I did read that argument people were making about the identity of Leonid Elenin and that he may not be the same person who originally discovered the comet. I'm not sure what to think about it at this point. Frankly, given all the other noise surrounding this topic, I thought there were more pertinent issues to point out and explore. In other words, this might just be more noise to keep people distracted from all the other things going on. Who knows though.

As for his writing style, maybe it's possible that someone edits his writing (either now or then)? Sometimes when the SOTT editors get done with what I write it bares little resemblance to what I originally wrote (And yes, we have awesome editors here! )

Whoa, someone else that sees that! I can't stand when people say "...the cat licks it's paw because its a dirty paw..." ...grrrr....
Let's remember our 2nd grade grammar, people!
Take a lesson from the more educated among us whose first language is other than English :-)

I had not thought that someone might be editing his entries for him! Good call. I'm having a problem with the name "Elenin" itself, because I've never seen it used as a Russian last name. No one on Facebook has it for a last name (Scores of "Elenin Duh" pages though, wtf is that?), and searching for surname etymology on Elenin also brings up nothing. I wrote a friend who researches Russian and Slavic names going back to like 900 AD to see if he's run across it anywhere as a Russian or Slavic last name. I'll let you know. The name thing is really bugging me.

....the objective reasoning of NASA &their compadres in keeping panic amongst the peoples of this earth at a minimum. THEY HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN & everything you see going on is them trying to do something about it and not panic the masses. When I say everything - I mean EVERYTHING going on on the Earth.
To be honest they have tried thru smoke & mirrors, clues & hints of slowly trying to dose out the medicinal information as they prepare for some sort of survival!
Take the movie DEEP IMPACT.......in it a Black President - Morgan Freeman - sends ATLANTIS to dock with the MESSIAH ( secret space ship ! Delta IV {23 stories tall} was launched out of California with NO FANFARE ) to deal wit E.L.E = extinction.level.event..........IT IS TOO UNCANNY!!!!!!!!!ELENIN was "discovered" in dec 2010............NIN = Notable Impact ? Nemesis??
DEEP IMPACT WAS MADE IN the 90's......their long range planning has been subtle BUT strangely in the OPEN for anyone to see!!!!!!!!!! or understand..........they have murdered & killed, destroyed & sabotaged many many many people, events, discoveries - scientific & archeological because they understand the futility of human effort in trying to solve this dilemma.......they have been hijacked by parasites that have partied like it was 1999. The Elites think they will survive. While the vast majority will die! That is why they don't care about radiation, oil-spills, epidemics , unsustainable exploitation etc etc because they see their material demise very clearly and have become obsessed with a material eternal life - biogenetic & for the few. They are in the final laps of their race to survive. UNFORTUNATELY as much as they know - they are MORE fearful of the spiritual dimensions of these events - the bigger picture - the truly unknown as their focus has been to PRESERVE THEIR POWER THRU THIS INEVITABLE EVENT for than provide comfort , guidance, trauma reduction, leadership, compassion for the peoples of this earth - instead leaving billions to die horribly! & in ignorance.................The glimmer of any hope lies in the very real very vastly & fastly changing spiritual & psychic events culminating on Humanity - a mass of living beings CANNOT feel the coming impact of these events without prescience..............WAKE-UP the time is NOW!!!!!!ACTIVATE & ASCEND! help one another - it's very very urgent!
ps very telling is NASA"S FAMILY "DISASTER" PREPAREDNESS VIDEO PUT OUT ON 6/10/11......tick-tock!
& NASA"S UTTERLY SILENCE ON THE SUBJECT OF E.L.Enin!

The article does not delve into the things you bring up, which is a bit noticeable.
There ARE D.U.M.B.S, and they ARE connected by high-speed maglev rail, and there ARE over 100 of them under the US alone...and the Elites DO plan to live down there and survive while the rest of us deal with whatever happens on the surface. So we really don't know what's coming, but the point it that THEY believe it will be catastrophic.
This is a group of psychopaths, and they will survive at all costs.
I agree, the name is a LITTLE bit of a coincidence when you realize that the have used the term "extinction-level event".

This information is as old as time ......loosely......"and I saw a Woman clothed with the Sun, standing on the Moon with 12 stars around her head - pregnant ........." Virgo which , if i am not mistaken will finally hold Comet Elenin forth....i.e. giving "birth" to Elenin after it Eclipses' the Sun.

Something is up - but the scale & breath of the culmination of these upcoming events span the eons of human conciousness & memory.Preparedness should have been more astute if the powers that be had not decided to subjugate , with willing participation of distracted masses.

Apocalypse fever ! Humanity feels it , has been prepared for it on so many subtle levels - schools over and our long transit on this plane of existence with it's predatory vicious lifeforms at once so so terrifying & sometimes so fleetingly beautiful like the Sunrise & Sunset.......end of the day just a mess of subatomic particle floating about messing together under perception.........What is this Pinda of Dust ......to loosely quote the Buddha!

congrats Ryan on a great read, and SOTT for these gems which inform us. The perfect combination of facts, likelyhoods, and conjectures, and with great links for additional reading.

you even mentioned Nikolai Kozyrev, who's important work is all but lost, and an alternative to lunisolar precession!

a few points:

1) if elenin is bigger/big - we are are superfucked - as this rogue star simulator shows how planet orbits can be thrown wildly off by even a jupiter sized (.08 roughly solar masses) intruder [Link]

2) the simulator can also be used to speculate that SOME ice ages may be caused by a large body solar system intruder that perterbs orbits, which may take tens of thousands of years to get back close to circular

3) many prophecies are self fulfilling - especially religious one - and heavans gate is not the exception to the rule. Whether you believe Jesus is a God , a God/Son of man, or actually the sun, Matthew 28:20 is clear - he will only be with us until the end of the age., which is about now

(note: i go by the roughly 2000 year age, with 13 original zodiac signs within the Great Year)

It all seems to ring of propaganda - it doesnt matter who says what about it but everyone is writing something about something that seems to be very much on the cards and whilst respecting SOTT for what they do, and despite their Casseiopian connection the truth is yet to be observed-

There is also some tyuth in what LaFeria wrote for even if he is a shill or a trogg or troll or whatever,he comments about observable truth too !!! Do we NOT notice what the PTB is and is not doing?

Arcticcircircle also made a comment that needs studying for itrs apparent pervasiveness and Ryan noted that in some "articles" there are mentions of "where to move to" in the impending danger zone of impact - cynically one might ask if this has to do with a land grab or property scam or simply a takeover of a vast area of land for a different agenda?

And I recall the phrase that La Feria made as being most pertinent in its most minimal sense as much of as that in its most extrapolated sense -"Elites think they will survive. While the vast majority will die! That is why they don't care about radiation, oil-spills, epidemics , unsustainable exploitation etc etc because they see their material demise very clearly and have become obsessed with a material eternal life - biogenetic & for the few. They are in the final laps of their race to survive!"

I surmise that survival and who survives will be luck and to those who actually know how to survive without the use of technology.

What pisses me off is that I have something so beautiful to do in this beautiful natural world that the auger of a massive extinction trauma taking it away seems to surpass all description

Anyone interested in seeing the last of the marine world wonders should let me know - even if I only make day one of my project it will have been the best thing I ever did - as far as PTB are concerned its the just desserts coming in to roost..I laugh in their faces for the arrogant, ignorant dickheads they are.

Just read Lierre Keith's book "The Vegetarian Myth" and you will finally know just how crazy and out of touch with reality the PTB really are. You'll also understand why, even if there are no comets, no HAARP, no nothing... things are worse than we ever imagined.

Thank you for such a "down to earth" article around this subject. Well researched and presented.

I am just an ordinary person, but seem to be having extraordinary experiences that have increased during these times.

When I was 15, over 35 years ago, I was awoken in the middle of the night because my bed was shaking and the headboard was hitting the wall. A being was in my room, in front of me. He was tiny, in a robe and all I could see were his very scary eyes. No words were spoken but I knew he wanted to take me and I could not leave with him. Then suddenly a very bright, warm light came into the room accompanied by a friend who had passed on to the other side just 6 months prior. He assured me everything would be all right and it was. I think this was an interrupted abduction.

The only noticeable effect was I became electrical in nature after that. You have probably heard of people who can't wear watches etc. That was me. No biggie. Life went on with the other exception of being able to transmute energy from others. I would say I am an Empath. I chose to ignore all of this and have a normal life. I have had other strange events happen, but pertinent to this conversation is what started happening last year in the month of June of 2010

Something in the universe changed. I started receiving huge amounts of electrical energy through the soles of my feet. Charges strong enough to turn on my small radio/alarm clock beside my bed. This went on every night for over 2 months. This electrical charge I was receiving was coherent, organized in some way, I am aware of Reiki universal energy...this felt different. I could walk by my TV and turn it on and off. When I went into stores and I my electrical energy would activate price machines etc,I had fun with a friend when we noticed her cell phone would automatically play a voice mail message when I was either with her or on the phone. A message she could never find on the phone itself. Hey this was so weird I had to find ways to understand what was happening to me and be able to laugh at it.

My body ended up getting overwhelmed and sick as a new sense of smell also seemed to come on line and as well. I eventually screamed at the universe that it needed to be more gentler with me and it did. I now receive the electricity very gently

These events lead me to this type of research as my direct experience is that we do live in an electrical universe and I have to wonder if this electricity is changing my DNA..I have followed up on Lauras travels concerning this wave that is coming and in my opinion it arrived.

I would love to hear if other people are having these experiences of electricity directly. When I hear about the transformers blowing, I think wow I am lucky I didn't get fried. LOL. Got to have humour in these times!

I almost fell out of my chair as I read your posting. A very, very similar incident happened to me in 1965.at the age of 10. Over the last 5 years or so, I too started to notice many strange electrical things happening around me. When I turn on lights, they blow-out frequently. Wireless phones wake up when I walk by. It was so bad I had to remove them from my home, I must use regular plug in phones. Computers start doing really strange things after about an hour & usually end up crashing. Keyboard skips around all by it's self Since that time at age 10, normal watches end up going crazy. Presently I have a solar watch that has worked now for a year or so. Longest lasting watch for me. When I try to use my husband's I-Phone it just does what it wants. When my fingers get close to the screen, it jumps to next page or to some app I do not want. I would be very interested in communicating with you. Many other strange things going on. Any ringing in your ears?

This is the first time I have been on this site so I do not know how to contact you other than by adding comment here. Thanks for posting your story!

Hoagland's assertion that Elenin is a "piloted" craft does not necessarily mean it's of alien origin. It could have created been by humans via the secret space program.

Think about it: if the ultimate goal is to de-populate 90% of the Earth's population, this artificial harbinger of doom could be the perfect scapegoat. It would allow a type of self-fulfilling prophecy to unfold -- the 2012 endtimes -- with the people having no clue that the earthquakes, extreme weather, tsumanis, diseases, etc. are actually being perpetrated by HAARP and other technologies

Wanted to add to this great article a couple of points. One is that you pose the question wondering if Elenin has anything to do with the chaotic weather on the planet and judging by the content and awareness you exhibit in this article - I have to assume that you must realize the chaotic weather is created and not a natural occurrence. The second point is your lumping together of "Mayan Calendar, 2012, and Doomsday Prophecies." Again, based on the awareness you exhibit I'd like to assume that you are aware that the Mayan elders have spoken about the deception of those equating a doomsday scenario with their calendar prophecies. Doomsday is being created - it's man made.

I guess we will not know the full impact (on Earth) of comet Elenin until we find out its true size once and for all. You'd think that with all of the professional astronomers out there (worldwide), somebody can tell us exactly how big this comet really is. Have Leonid Elenin's estimates on the comet been verified by a professional? If so, why are people so worried about a 3-4 km width comet?

No I am not any of those things - just a simple person that thru the years has felt deeply "something" about our world that I have not been told about ever since I pick-up a dime store novella on "Atlantis" & read about the Great Pyramid. Thru my search for elucidation I have stumbled like most people on elusive clues - and I have been trying to understand my Universe around me.
Don't be pissed off that it might all end - this earth is a school and the knowledge you have acquired is key to your development - ENJOY YOUR MARINE WORLD - record it, save it's memory - there is a reason why you do it & it is very very crucial for you & others! SHARE your knowledge. And don't give up - a new path will open for you.
That is what they miss - transformation. We change because to remain in this form "eternally" is vampiric and non-cyclical - which is the sublime regurgitation of our present lifeforms - live , die , compost, feed something else......requires so much consumption of "energy" i.e. feed or die........feeeeeeeeeeddddddd.......how wonderful it would be to be free of continual HUNGER! The main grip of our perception is this crucible - all life as we know it require's continual & end of the day exhaustible energy sources. Our genetic genes denote who we are & our karmic genes pull us to who we will become. help as many as you can . peace.

This article sums up what we already know and this is we don't know anything for sure. what would you do different if you knew this comet was nibiru or whatever you think it may be is bringing on the apocalypse? and why aren't you doing that right now? Seriously you could choke on a cracker and die reading this. the fact is you can't worry about things you have no control over. While everyone is looking one way try looking the other.
I believe there is a sense something is going to happen. Maybe if we stop listening to our brain and use our hearts the truth will be revealed.

just to add another dog to the pony show, what if the planet is approaching from another dimension and using earths energy to get here. teehee. All topics on this matter will always just be speculation and make great movies too!

Great article, and very well written! I am starting a new blog that brings these questionable topics to the forefront, to not only educate new people, but also to bring people together to discuss and attain a higher level of consciousness. Please visit the blog if you have time at:

Ryan, this is an excellent article that covers everything pretty well. It is well researched and I am impressed that you were able to cover as much ground as you did in a relatively short essay.

As an advanced amateur astrophotographer that specializes in shooting (imaging) comets, I hope to be able to get some images of this little comet in October of this year. It is not well placed for observing/imaging in the USA until then. As far as comets go, this is a mediocre comet that the general public will probably not be able to see and will only be marginal for astrophotography. An even better comet for 2011/2012 is Comet Garradd (C/2009 P1). So far, no one is making a big spectacle about Garradd even though it will be almost as bright as Elenin but for a much longer period.

BTW, John Bortle, a professional astronomer, has suggested that Comet Elenin may be too small to survive perihelion passage. That would be interesting since the debris would later sweep by Earth in mid-October with the Earth crossing the remnants of the stream underneath the former comet's orbit on Nov 1st/2nd, 2011. Could that produce a meteor shower? Probably not, but I guess it depends on how energetic the breakup would be.

For those interested, my Flicker page with all the comets I've shot as well as other celestial objects:

[Link]
Check back on the Flickr page in October for images of Comet Elenin. I should have some images of Comet Garradd by that time, too.

Why is Elenin being viewed over 2000 times since being discovered? [Link]See this link.....I dont claim to understand all the data but it doesnt take a rocket scientist to wonder WHY are the looking at it so frequently if it is NOTHING?!!!

I was present at the original streaming of the Project Camelot Elenin round table discussion and frankly this article brings more to the table then the round table discussion did. If you want to compare "layers" then this article presents a much more interesting, rational, scientific approach and covered more "layers" and affecting phenomena than did the almost 4 hour discussion did at Project Camelot.

I think that ones needs to be a really good reader and discerner of information and it seems that you failed to notice that Ryan X only chose to comment on Richard Hoaglands assertion that this object is under intelligent control but did not claim to disseminate all of the conference material.

Secondly, I believe the article that Ryan X quoted from the Exopolitics Examiner was from Michael Salla not Alfred Lambremont Webre.

I would suggest that you, as passive armchair reader, be more attentive when deciding to engage in discussion, if you want to have any credibility.

first place why is the moon has some weird eliptical variations consider this the cern hadron collider in switzerland it is the largest collider on earth and it is altering the rotation of our planet in other words its making it wobble now go step farther our planet is a hollow planet not a large mass of nickle iron that is molten - velikoskies ideas dont work
but what if there is a large double sun that is twin to our sol for which it could make it a binary star system that is far more unique than any system every thing you knew was a fraud created by satan day one whore vatican whore church that created the fraud !

There is a report from J.F. Soulier at the Observatoire de Haute Provence in France that shows images supposedly of Elenin. See [Link]
In each of two animations, there seem to be at least two objects moving together. I've not seen this mentioned anywhere else. It would be nice to have independent verification of this observation.

Soulier seems to be a seasoned comet watcher judging from the list at [Link]

As far as I can tell, Kerry Cassidy is giving Hoagland's drivel a spotlight and that's what I'm pointing out in the article. As you can see I'm not attacking her personally anywhere in the article, only questioning her actions/motivations. Being in the spotlight, she's certainly not above reproach.

what is Elenin? not really sure. Is Leonid Elenin for real? looks like it, unless the interview is bogus. will Elenin cause any bad effects? not sure. has Elenin caused bad alignment effects already (3-11 EQ) ? not sure.

is there something strange going on with all the Elenin rumors? looks like it?

at any rate, people should be prepared - as in extra supplies in case of a supply chain breakdown. the most basic of this is to buy a few months of bathroom and health maintenence item supplies (vitamins, razors, iodine, aspirin, etc) , and a few gallons of peanut butter per person.

perhaps the greatest danger of Elenin, Levy, Honda, and other comets are the potential for a false flag.you know, those Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Northwoods, Lusitania, and , uh, other ones. As commoners have gotten just a bit smarter, a COVER STORY may be needed.

Thankyou Laura - I havent recently joined the ranks of the enlightened and have seen some pretty crude things in my life - I dont pretend to be so au fé with things but am very sure simply by the observable facts that the PTB is sick body of quasi humans - almost like Neantherdal to Cro Magnon...but the battle for the minds is very much on with what seems to be a big "coming" of something thats going to awaken many before putting them to sleep permanently.

Thanks too, LaFeria - by way of introduction of that which I wrote - that which I did not pertain to you in my view - and I share much of what you have said - I also feel the same way about what this world is and the "learning" for a next exsistence....of course I will do my project - like I said even if I only get to the first day....I am not beaten nor when I leave the physical and join the energy...cheers avatarian

I don't know what to think about it all, so many lies floating around, hard to believe anything anymore. One thing I am sure about is that if there is an upcoming ELE, the powers that be may not warn everyone not because they are cruel, but because of what people would do if they did. Have you seen the video's of people trampling others to get to the cheap stuff for sale after Thanksgiving? I went through a hurricane and remember how shocked I was that most people didn't care for anyone else. It was all about me, me, me. If they were to announce an event, even long before, with enough time to prepare as best could, that society would implode. We wouldn't need a comet or brown dwarf...just the announcement and we're done.

I've seen this too and it's not just one person that has shown this on Google sky. There have been many. But honestly (and I'm no astronomer), isn't this orange coloured star trillions of light years away from our solar system? It looks interesting though with the 3 objects (planets?) that appear to be in orbit around it. Perhaps, Ryan X can enlighten us on this possible companion star.

The only thing I wish to take issue with here is the claim that the only way the earth would experience an electromagnetic polar shift is if a planet or other large heavenly body passed close enough to disrupt the current polar maxims. I don't claim facts, because there aren't any, but it is my sincere belief that the positive and negative polar locations of the earth are in direct correlation to the positive and negative poles of the sun. The amount of electromagnetic power and influence our star sends out is what keeps this planet and the rest on a systemic plane of orbits, and spinning with the same polar top and bottom as the sun and every other planet. There are differences in the rate of spin and the alignment, but there are also differences in the core content of each planet. Earth, as an example, is really a huge molten ball of iron and other metallic elements, and this keeps it relatively stable in relationship to the sun.
There are other things out there that must keep the sun stable in it's spin and orbits with known stars of the cluster and purported unknown sister stars in the immediate area. If there is a galactic plane, and we are about to pass through it, then I have to envision that plane is a positive / negative relationship point with the galactic center, which could flip the sun's polarity (electromagnetic poles) and would thereby flip the earth's poles and the poles of every other planet in the solar system, as well as a majority of other smaller asteroid and comets. If there is a sister brown dwarf star or other such heavenly body, the orbital relationship between that body, the sun, and the solar system could be put into an upheaval.
Understand, I have no idea whether any of this is true, but also understand that all science is just as untrustworthy as religion and government. I have to take pieces of a monumental puzzle and plug them into what I have already accepted as truth. I do know that the scientists in charge of explaining this all to us have gone so far down the wrong path and are so lost that they now just make things up to explain the other things they have already made up. That gives me the right to conjecture too.
Everything is connected, and not by the weak explanation of gravity. This is an electrical universe, the sun is an electric star of pure plasma energy, and we are a giant magnetic ball rotating around it. All other stars are electromagnetic, and tied to our solar system via electromagnetic tethers, some stronger and some weaker, but all in a giant matrix called a galaxy. And all galaxies are tied to one another via their own electromagnetic .tethers. And somewhere in the center of it all is a magnificent source of energy and matter, working forever to produce new energies and the particles of life. It is so far away that we can't possibly see it. When we reach the end of its electromagnetic tie and influence, our solar system will fade and die, then be pulled around again as an ashen entity only to eventually connect with the original source, and once again become energy. It is the cycle of everything, from atom to universe.
The big bang is linear and incongruent with everything else in the universe. It is not cyclical and does no follow the first law of thermodynamics, or the first three laws of God. Someone put a limit on this babble I keep typing, would you? Chew out...

[Link]
Go to website to see facts of how often Nasa is viewing Elenin
Then look at comet levy and see that it has been viewed 364 times in several years and Elenin has been viewed 2199 times in 200 DAYS!!!!
Seems weird to me!

[Link]
Go tothe above website to see facts of how often Nasa is viewing Elenin
Then look at comet levy and see that it has been viewed 364 times in several years and Elenin has been viewed 2199 times in 200 DAYS!!!!
Seems weird to me! I am preparing for what i can control.....food, water, meds and guns!

We currently are living in a warm period, between ice ages (interglacial), called the Holocene. These interglacials always end rather abruptly after about 11,000 to 12,000 years. Interglacials are followed by ice ages that last about 100,000 years. The end of the Holocene is overdue when compared to the last Interglacial (Eemian). Sorry Al Gore, but the Eemian was waaay hotter than our Holocene.

Botton Line: Once we factor in the curent anemic solar maximum, and the predicted*** "hibernation" of the sun there is one highly-possible conclusion: We will see the end of the Holocene and the beginning of the next Ice Age very soon.

We don't fully understand the unusual Comet Elenin and it's effects. Modern Man was not here the last time it came. However the timing and uncertainties of Elenin suggest it could somehow trigger the next Ice Age.

*** Quote from IceAgeNow (14 June 2011)

Today's shocking announcement came from scientists at the US National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

At a press conference held at the annual meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico, three solar scientists gave their forecast for the next solar cycle, number 25.

"Cycle 24 may be the last normal one for some time," said solar physicist Dr Frank Hill, "and the next one, Cycle 25, may not happen. The solar cycle may be going into hiatus, like a TV show."

Hill, who is associate director of the NSO’s Solar Synoptic Network, is the lead author on one of three papers presented at the meeting.

"This is highly unusual and unexpected," says Dr Hill. "But the fact that three completely different views of the Sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."

Somethings going on anyway even if Elenin is a mystery. The symptoms are visible and obvious. People are protesting and agitating all over the globe. People are becoming more aware that they are more than the body. That they have a soul and a spirit